Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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Standard Name: Ewing, Juliana Horatia
Birth Name: Juliana Horatia Gatty
Nickname: Julie
Pseudonym: J. H. G.
Nickname: Aunt Judy
Married Name: Juliana Horatia Ewing
Indexed Name: Mrs Ewing
Pseudonym: J. H. E.
JHE
, like her mother before her, was one of the best-loved children's writers of the nineteenth century. She published stories and novels for young people, ran (jointly with her sister Horatia Katherine Frances, later Eden
) Aunt Judy's Magazine (which her mother had founded) and wrote delightful letters, some of them describing her time in Canada.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Its authorship was often wrongly attributed to Juliana Ewing
.
Gatty, Horatia K. F. “Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
Juliana Ewing
called MG
's collection of three stories, The Human Face Divine and Other Tales (titled from Paradise Lost), 1859, a very characteristic volume.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1677 (1859): 812
To most readers today the...
Textual Features
Margaret Gatty
Juliana Ewing
pointed out that some of the stories (The Smut, The Crick, and The Brothers, all in a section called The Black Bag) were not her mother's contributions. They...
Literary responses
Margaret Gatty
Geraldine Jewsbury
reviewed this book for the Athenæum on 11 October 1862. Juliana Ewing
wrote that like many sequels it was not equal to the first work, and bears traces of the fact that Mrs...
Textual Production
Margaret Gatty
Her full title was British Sea-Weeds, Drawn from Professor Harvey
's Phycologia Britannica. With descriptions, an amateur's synopsis, rules for laying out sea-weeds, an Order for Arranging them in the Herbarium, and an Appendix of...
Reception
Margaret Gatty
Juliana Ewing
singled out for particular praise the introduction and the Rules for Preserving and Laying out Sea-weeds, in which the work aligns itself with a tradition of women writing about female handicrafts.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
xvii
Textual Production
Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy
, Ibsen
, and Zolarepulsive in the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Nina Bawden
NB
liked her grandmother's children's books (including Jackanapes, by Juliana Horatia Ewing
) better than the ones she found in the public library—these she found flimsy.
Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago.
21
Reception
Mary Anne Barker
The Times, reviewing Sybil's Book in late 1873, found it both delightful and thoroughly original.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.
185
Betty Gilderdale
endorses this, calling it the first book to be published in England for teenage girls...
